[lovvtide]

You might be interested in Roger Penrose's ideas about "Conformal Cyclic Cosmology".

As best I understand, he's proposing that the universal will not ever fully collapse into a black hole. On the contrary, it will continue to expand and diffuse, eventually reaching a state in the far future—and here is where the details exceed my understanding—somehow physically/mathematically identical to the conditions that were present at the Big Bang. Or in other words, if you run time out to an infinity in one direction, it sort of "wraps back around" on itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformal_cyclic_cosmology

[zoroaster]

This is very interesting - thank you for sending. His "cyclic cosmology" somewhat fits into 2 but with a different flavor. And given you reach a stage of maximum entropy during the heat death of the universe prior to folding back into a new singularity - it seems the same result would still occur each time given no changes in initial conditions.

I'm sort of leaning towards LinuxBender here in thinking this is all some infinite movie on loop generated bc consciousness was bored by itself in the dark.